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Google Purchases Its First Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lets-all-crash-on-the-couch dept.

noparkingzone writes "ZDnet is reporting that Google has purchased the garage that the company first called home for an undisclosed sum. The Menlo Park structure was owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends. Leased to Serge and Brin by Susan Wojcicki for around $1,700 per month in 1998, the original Googleplex is intended to be preserved as part of the company's living history."

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  1. Still waiting for the Real Estate Bubble to Pop by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a sad state of affairs in the real estate market today if that little house is all Larry & Serge can afford with their jobs.

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  2. $1700 rent for a Garage! by Fysiks+Wurks · · Score: 5, Funny

    That must have been one sweet slab...

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  3. California by paranode · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only there would you pay 1700/month to live in a garage!

  4. That's cool and all... by xENoLocO · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... but is it really front page news?

    I mean, I congratulate the couple on their new house, but come on... :)

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    1. Re:That's cool and all... by supremebob · · Score: 5, Insightful

      No, it's not. This is the kind of crap that I'd expect to see on Digg, not Slashdot.

      Oh, you can go ahead and mod my comment down now. I have the karma points to spare.

  5. It's good to be a billionaire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends"

    Must be nice to have billions and multiple girlfriends.

  6. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to be outdone, Microsoft has purchased the back seat of the '62 Camaro where Bill Gates' mother was knocked up by satan.

  7. Re:Grammar Nazi by jcorno · · Score: 5, Funny

    companies???? do you mean company's ???? between this and all of the thens where there should be thans, what the hell is happening to gramar in American English?????

    If only you had asked, "What the hell is happening to spelling and capitalization in American English?" Then your situational irony would be complete.

  8. That's because by mapmaker · · Score: 5, Funny
    For that price in Ohio I could get a *huge* garage (w/ attached house), and still have money left over

    That's because nobody wants to live in Ohio.